"It's such a touchy area, " he said. "It had to be clear: What we are satirizing is the character and his loss of identity. So we have a black actor there" -- Brandon T. Jackson, who plays the braggadocios rapper-actor Alpa Chino in -- "calling [Lazarus] on every moment to be perfectly clear about our point of view. We never wanted it to be OK."

Let's see if Spike Lee anticipated this kind of tried and true bullshit excuse, shall we?

This sambo crap needs to be called out for what it is: straight up racism.